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Record Number
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000288977
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ISBN
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 9781107118256 (hardback)
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Main Entry
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Hedreen, Guy Michael, 1958-. author
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Title
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The image of the artist in archaic and classical Greece :. art, poetry, and subjectivity / Guy Hedreen, Williams College, MA.
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Imprint
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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Descr.
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xv, 364 pages ; 27 cm.
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Language
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eng
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-348) and index.
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Contents
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Introduction: "I am Odysseus" -- 1. Smikros and Euphronios : pictorial alter ego -- 2. Archilochos, the fictional creator-protagonist, and Odysseus -- 3. Hipponax and his make-believe artists -- 4. Hephaistos in epic : analog of Odysseus and antithesis to Thersites -- 5. Pictorial subjectivity and the Shield of Achilles on the Francois vase -- 6. Frontality, self-reference, and social hierarchy : three Archaic vase-paintings -- 7. Writing and invention in the vase-painting of Euphronios and his circle -- Epilogue: Persuasion, deception, and artistry on a red-figure cup
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Abstract
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"This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Vase-painting, Greek -- History
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Vase-painting, Greek -- Themes, motives
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Greek Poetry -- History and criticism
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Greek Poetry -- Themes, motives
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Art and literature -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
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Subjectivity in art
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Subjectivity in literature
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Arts, Greek -- History
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Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C.
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Electronic Location
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 Cover image http://assets.cambridge.org/97811071/18256/cover/9781107118256.jpg
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Holdings
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All items
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Blegen Library
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British School Library
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